Jason Iacovino (34) Born in Ely, Minn., raised in Blooming Prairie...I've had a passion for broadcasting and journalism all my life, particularly for sports broadcasting. Joined KRFO / Kat Kountry in 2000...play-by-play for football, basketball, baseball, and hockey (If I can sit near a heater)...earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication in June 2001...earned a juris doctorate from the University of St. Thomas School of Law in May 2006...favorite teams are the Minnesota Twins, Minnesota Vikings, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Miami Hurricanes football, Blooming Prairie Awesome Blossoms, NRHEG Panthers, and Owatonna Huskies...favorite players are Kirby Puckett, Adrian Peterson, Spencer Ohm, Carlie Wagner, and Lew Ford...I enjoy writing, reading, and talking about sports. Married to my wife, Shannon, and have two children, Lauren (4) and Fletcher (2).
Jason Iacovino
Jason’s Blog: More Vikes QB ??
Posted By: Jason Iacovino
It's been a Minnesota sports August tradition since 2011--Twins irrelevance and Vikings quarterback controversy.
Tonight we will get a classic double header, starting with the latest version of the Vikes QB carousel when Minnesota hosts Oakland at TCF Bank Stadium in their first preseason game of the season at 7 pm...
Jason’s Blog: Mauer Mayhem
Posted By: Jason Iacovino
Minnesota has a sports crisis it doesn't want to address. The reluctance to address the crisis, like the subject of the crisis himself, is too Minnesotan to face the issue square-on.
Instead, we prefer to be passive-aggressive...
Jason’s Blog: Mauer Mayhem
Posted By: Jason Iacovino
Minnesota has a sports crisis it doesn't want to address. The reluctance to address the crisis, like the subject of the crisis himself, is too Minnesotan to face the issue square-on.
Instead, we prefer to be passive-aggressive...
Jason’s Blog: Get well soon, Tiger!
Posted By: Jason Iacovino
Tiger Woods is second all-time in career major championships (14) and trails Jack Nicklaus' famed record in this category by 4. What once seemed inevitable now could be fading.
Woods' last major title was his most memorable--a 91-hole shootout with Rocco Mediate for the 2008 U...
Jason’s Blog: Twins winning anew
Posted By: Jason Iacovino
Ah, the yin and yang of the 2014 Minnesota Twins.
In April, we were all wondering why on Earth general manager Terry Ryan would spend a king's ransom on four veteran starting pitchers who could never seem to get out of the fifth inning...
Jason’s Blog: Code Red for Twins
Posted By: Jason Iacovino
After a promising 15-15 start to the season, the Minnesota Twins had a very bad week. It's not simply that they lost 3 of 4 at division foe Cleveland, it's that their roster has turned into an embarrassment in the process...
Highlights: OHS 5, Faribault 2
FARIBAULT--Isaac Rocha pitched a complete game 3-hitter as the Owatonna baseball team beat rival Faribault, 5-2, to remain atop the Big 9 standings on Wednesday.
Riley Thompson was 2-for-4 with a homer and a triple to lead OHS offensively...
Jason’s Blog: OHS baseball
Posted By: Jason Iacovino
Now that the weather is finally cooperating, Owatonna's baseball team can resume its winning season after a 10-day detour. With that, the 7-1 Huskies will have 6 key conference games in the next four days, including at rival Faribault on Wednesday, which I will broadcast live on Kat Kountry 104...
Jason’s Blog: Rain hits Target
Posted By: Jason Iacovino
We all knew this was coming.
Target Field opened as the Twins' new home in April 2010 and, much like the teaching profession, everyone understood the best three things about it would be June, July, and August...
Twins (8-7): Good, Bad, and Ugly
Posted By: Jason Iacovino
The question of whether or not the Minnesota Twins would ever get above .500 in 2014 was answered in the affirmative on a freezing cold Thursday at Target Field. Hours earlier, parts of the Twin Cities metropolitan area were cleaning up from over 6 inches of snowfall from the night before, yet the Twins braintrust not only were preparing for the coldest first pitch tempe